Avis Christine Otts

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Avis Christine "Chris" Otts, age 86, passed away Sunday, January 16, 2022 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital- Tipton in Covington, TN. 

Funeral services for Ms. Otts will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the interment to follow at Shady Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. 

Chris was born on May 19, 1935 in Sulligent, AL. She was a retired hairdresser and a member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church. 

The family left behind to cherish her precious memory include her children, Catherine Renee Hammons (Tracy) of Horn Lake, MS, and Alan Dale Otts (Debbie) of Covington, TN; thirteen grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren and one great great-grandchild. 

She is preceded in death by her parents, Grady Lee Otts and Artie Bell Lucas Otts; her husband, Major Roosevelt Otts; two children, Terry Henry,  Fred Otts; four grandchildren, Zachary Adam Carithers, Kimberly Jane Falanga, Joey Henry and Justin Henry; and several brothers and sisters.